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Around the world in 17 memorable speeches

It's Saint Crispin's Day (October 25), best known as the date of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 (though the Charge of the Light Brigade, a disasterous cavalry action in the Crimean War, also took place on October 25).

Agincourt was dramatised in Shakespeare's Henry V. In the St Crispin's Day Speech, the king rouses his army with the lines: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers / For he to-day that sheds his blood with me / Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile/ This day shall gentle his condition /And gentlemen in England now a-bed / Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here / And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks / That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."